Leaf & Frank +

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Robert Frank ( November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019 ), June Leaf  (August 4, 1929 – July 1, 2024) 

success feeds through interaction . it’s a very fortunate artist who gets to share their life fully with another .

steidl’s ink factory –One form of the atelier. [ g-d couldn’t spell-find ] Home to book forms of both Robert Frank and June Leaf. August 2026 that is changing — [ jul16 steidl news ]

The group can be small, but it must be . In an ideal artworld every0ne is an artist. Your daily minimums are fullfilled by nearest. The scroll unrolls — you mark out portions with increasing fluency. 

The days when the group was a photo lab are gone. The print dryer doesn’t exist. 

work unrolls — The harder part of working is finding others to work with not on your work but on the work they make  that  makes your work .. their work amplified their life.. The coral reef.

Worlds, manners of stimulation — tiktoking between observation and conception — construction and marshalling. 

Steady-state studios over decades in New York and Mabou proved art accumulates within a space. Physical memory. Leaf: “I have discovered that thought is infinite” 1975 — “It is impossible to do the same story every day.” She worked daily, relying upon visual intuitions, much like Robert. Her first training was physical as a ballet dancer. “When I see a drawing it’s like a locomotive or something powerful into which I just put back the machine.” Along her craft path, she learned and built a forge. She builds her drawings/paintings as sculpture. As if forging a multipart art world.

Art has no singularity — all is wireframe. The lucky live within an accepting world that nourishes … Artists do more when living with other artists … 

Fn,  [own] because of so many uses of “hyper-personal” use by Foster. Master’s degree in 1991 from Brown University.[Looking closely and nudging others toward a shift in perception have become life’s work for Foster ] ~b. 1965

synthesis over analysis

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Harris Shutter.

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When you Rise.

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when you awake do you look for what’s right, or what’s failed overnight.

growth or gloom .

upon first viewing, do you look for what’s best in the photograph, or what’s the worst . do you teach by pointing out their errors — or, … can you complete the line

can you get past the photograph . can you get past the subject of the photograph.. can you get past the limit you set yourself..

American Photographs — Weston to Beaumong Newhall, “I want the Walker Evans book. He is certainly one of our finest. When I see a photograph reproduced that I like, I usuallly find it is by Walker Evans.”  — september 23, 1938.